Color-Correcting Van Gogh

Joe Hanson tells how a Japanese doctor and media design specialist began musing about the possibility that Van Gogh was color blind:

After visiting a design exhibit that modeled the visual experience of people with colorblindness, Kazunori Asada noticed that…, [u]nder the chromatically filtered light, Van Gogh’s more striking and curious color choices suddenly became natural and warm. It was if this was how they were meant to be viewed, Asada thought.